You’ve already heard all the facts about government assistance, private food banks and the like — but a recent survey by a company called BillFloat put things into better perspective.

Get this: The survey found that 20 percent of Americans would give up sex for a month if they could stop paying bills during that time.

Really?

President Obama, not surprisingly, has a different view of the economy (and, perhaps, giving up sex for a month, but that’s for a different column in another section of this paper).

Obama, for instance, said the other day that business conditions are much better now than when he took office in January 2009. And he’s been pointing to the stock market’s recent good fortune as a proxy on how the economy is really doing and how people feel about their financial position. Wrong!

Tomorrow, Obama gets his latest report card when the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) releases its first guesstimate of the gross domestic product for the second quarter.

Squint if you want. Or get grandma’s reading glasses. No matter how you look at it, the latest GDP figure won’t be good — 1 percent annualized growth is about all anyone is expecting.

And the GDP wouldn’t even be that good if BEA didn’t use its own, special calculation for inflation. If the 1.8 percent annual inflation rate put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics were used instead of the BEA’s inflation guess, GDP growth would be close to zero.

You can blame anyone you want for this bad news — except me. Congress overspent, Obama proposed expensive things that could have waited, and American consumers for a decade bought into the belief that people really could have things they couldn’t afford.

Look, the US economy grew at a 1.8 percent rate in the first quarter. That’s less than half the amount needed to keep the economy flying.

In aeronautical terms, the economy wouldn’t even have gotten off the ground with growth like that.

But maybe Obama was comparing that anemic growth to the near flat-line 0.4 percent annualized growth in the last three months of 2012 — the “fiscal cliff” era.

I’ll give Obama this: Snail-like is better than glacial-paced. At 0.4 percent growth, we all starve. At 1.8 percent, we eat cereal without the fruit.

Were there some good quarters during Obama’s tenure? A couple: the fourth quarter of 2011, for instance, registered a GDP of 4.1 percent. But that was really just a catch-up from horrible numbers earlier that year.

And while Obama did inherit a horrible economy — like a 5.3 percent GDP contraction in his first months in office — he hasn’t accomplished anything to crow about.

Most of the growth during his time in office has been in the mediocre 2 percent range (2.4 percent in 2010, 1.8 percent in 2011 and 2.2 percent in 2012), despite an excessive amount of stimulus provided by Congress and the Federal Reserve.

Jobs aren’t created with that amount of growth. People can’t pay their bills.

Look, don’t take my word for how dire the conversations are at kitchen tables across the country. The BillFloat survey shows that 1 in 5 people is willing to live with things being worse in the bedroom to get things better at the kitchen table.

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What else would Americans do to have their bills paid? Well:

* 37 percent would turn the TV off for a month in exchange for their bills being paid, the BillFloat survey found. (Count me in.)

* 1 in 4 would give up digital devices like smartphones.

* Only 7 percent would add 25 pounds to their body weight in exchange for paid-in-full bills. The breakdown, not surprisingly, is 6 percent for women and 9 percent for men.

Of course, you’d run up some extra food bills to add on that 25 pounds, so I’m not so sure that one makes any sense.

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I owe the FBI half an apology. I’ve been complaining that the bureau has been less than interested in all the pedophile stuff occurring on the Internet, especially when it comes to Facebook.

I think I even used the word “lazy.”

But yesterday FBI agents rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution. It also arrested 150 pimps in 76 American cities. The victims ranged in age from 13 to 17 and were mostly girls.

Nice job!

But I still have one question: Why didn’t the FBI let the Internet site these pimps were using police itself? That’s the FBI policy toward Facebook, where I’ve identified no fewer than 200 convicted sex offenders with profiles.

A former FBI agent, by the way, is now in charge of Facebook’s compliance. So that might have something to do with it.

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The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets today and tomorrow. When the meeting is over, it’ll say that it may — or may not — taper its money-printing, currency-destroying quantitative easing.